I applaud this decision by the Association for Learning Technology 👏 should other professional associations leave?

From 30 August 2024, ALT will cease all activity on X (formerly known as Twitter).

Following recent events that conflict with our values and in consultation with our Trustees, staff, and members of the community, we will cease all activity on X from 30 August 2024.

To safeguard our identity, we will retain our @A_L_T [x.com] and @OERconf [x.com] accounts. Individual members who are still active on X may continue to post about ALT’s activities. We will no longer post, respond or retweet as an organisation.

We invite you to connect with us on LinkedIn [linkedin.com], Bluesky [bsky.app], and Mastodon [mastodon.social].

I’ve been reluctantly keeping my @theplatformuni account in order to promote Generative AI for Academics (and then Platform & Agency and How To Enjoy Writing which should be following around six months later) but it strikes me that the most productive and enjoyable time of my life for writing has coincided with being pretty much completely off social media. Not just for writing, for that matter 🤔

If it makes my life vastly better to be free of Twitter/X and its utility for promoting these books is rapidly declining, at least without a subscription which I refuse to do, then at what point do I need to just delete these accounts? It feels increasingly that to keep them is tacitly supporting the man who has become the world’s most dangerous reactionary.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/01/should-other-professional-associations-leave-twitter-x/

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